Mish Delish Good Food Blog

I’m a professional food stylist and currently prepping my own series of cookbooks and a cooking show. In my food catering business, Mishka La Mushka, I catered private and corporate functions and events big and small, designed food in hat boxes for the Spring Racing Carnival and created too many themed kids birthday parties to mention. But now I love food styling and sharing my fun food ideas with mums wanting to create restaurant-quality meals at home, for kids and family. So let’s get cooking!

I'm Mish Lilley, a kitchen cook, food stylist and chef prepping a series of cookbooks, a cooking show and this blog. This blog is dedicated to my love of good food styling and good food. It's a cooking site and recipe website designed to help mums and dads create restaurant-quality meals at home for their kids and family. My wide range of recipes cover:

The onset of the colder weather makes me want to get out the stockpot again and make some soup. I picked up some organic pumpkin from a farm I go in the Mornington Peninsula and it was the sweetest, brightest orange pumpkin, just gagging to be made into soup. The bacon bones gave this soup a delicious smokiness. The perfect lunch for a dreary day.

Heat a stockpot or large saucepan, add the olive oil and saute the onion until soft on a medium heat. Add the bacon bones and pumpkin and the stock. Add enough water to cover the ingredients in the pot.

Bring to the boil and then turn down the heat to low and simmer for approximately 2 hours or until the liquid has reduced by about a third.

Remove the bacon bones and puree with a blender, until smooth. Heat a frypan on a medium heat and add the extra olive oil and fry some sage leaves until crisp to garnish.